torus

Summary

torus ranks in the top 0.79% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,567 views/month, #615 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• torus's image is recorded as Simple Torus.svg^[2].
• torus's follows is recorded as sphere^[3].
• torus's followed by is recorded as genus-two surface^[4].
• torus's GND ID is recorded as 4185738-0^[5].
• torus's subclass of is recorded as surface of revolution^[6].
• torus's subclass of is recorded as surface^[7].
• torus's subclass of is recorded as closed manifold^[8].
• torus's subclass of is recorded as genus g surface^[9].
• torus's subclass of is recorded as compact Riemann surface^[10].
• torus's subclass of is recorded as shape^[11].
• torus's subclass of is recorded as geometric primitive^[12].
• torus's Commons category is recorded as Torus^[13].
• torus's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q1321 (spa)-Millars-toro.wav^[14].
• torus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0jy41^[15].
• torus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Torus^[16].
• torus's Commons gallery is recorded as Torus^[17].
• torus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1950–1958)^[18].
• torus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/torus-physics^[19].
• torus's has characteristic is recorded as genus^[20].
• torus's BBC Things ID is recorded as 383b0180-875f-4478-9f85-db360abbc277^[21].
• torus's different from is recorded as Three-torus^[22].
• torus's different from is recorded as Taurus^[23].
• torus's different from is recorded as torii^[24].
• torus's different from is recorded as pinched torus^[25].
• torus's defining formula is recorded as \left(R - \sqrt{x^2 + y^2}\right)^2 + z^2 = r^2^[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for torus include Tor Missile System^[27], a missile model^[28], founded in 1975^[29]; doughnut^[30], a maneuver^[31]; toric variety^[32]; and toroidal graph^[33], a minor-closed graph class^[34].

Why It Matters

torus ranks in the top 0.79% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,567 views/month, #615 of 77,819).^[1] torus has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35] torus is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[36]

Entities named for torus include Tor Missile System^[27], a missile model^[28], founded in 1975^[29]; doughnut^[30], a maneuver^[31]; toric variety^[32]; and toroidal graph^[33], a minor-closed graph class^[34].